Kodak 305 mm portrait lens. Help Please!!!

[Harold_4074]

Mark Sawyer: "I'll offer that the 300mm Imagon is a nice alterantive to the Kodak 305mm Portrait lens."

Not entirely sure that I would agree; not having a 300mm Imagon I can't make a side-by-side comparison, but the 250 Imagon (particularly with the H-stop disks) has a different "character" when compared to the Kodak. The Imagon seems to produce an image which "dissolves" much more quickly towards the edges of the frame, and transitions between a light edge and dark background have a very clearl boundary that I don't find all that attractive. The H-stops cause the highlights to have a "star pattern" that can be distracting as well.

[pierre salomon]

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[Mark Sawyer]

Mark Sawyer: "I'll offer that the 300mm Imagon is a nice alterantive to the Kodak 305mm Portrait lens."

Not entirely sure that I would agree; not having a 300mm Imagon I can't make a side-by-side comparison, but the 250 Imagon (particularly with the H-stop disks) has a different "character" when compared to the Kodak. The Imagon seems to produce an image which "dissolves" much more quickly towards the edges of the frame, and transitions between a light edge and dark background have a very clearl boundary that I don't find all that attractive. The H-stops cause the highlights to have a "star pattern" that can be distracting as well.

If you use the Imagon only with the h/stops, you're missing out on a whole 'nother aspect or the lens. The Compound shutter has a conventional diaphragm, and it works quite well with the Imagon.

I'd love to see comparison images between the Kodak Portrait and Imagon lenses. From the different images I've seen from both, they don't seem that far apart in their effect, though I could be wrong.

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